When Kingdom Goes

Act I - Prologue

"Hey! Come back here! Just wait until I get my hands on you, you little thief!" Shouts a middle aged shopkeeper.

"Trust me old man, I wouldn't do it if I didn't need to! If I get some money sometime soon I'll give you back twice as much!" A young hooded girl carrying stolen apples shouts back as she dashes down an empty alleyway.

As she runs down the alleyway, she notices that there's something at the end of it that looked strange, to say the least. It was humanoid, but it was certainly not human. As she got closer, she started to feel shockwaves coming from the area where this creature was. After the first few shockwaves, she could see the creature was fighting someone. Two young men, in fact. The shockwaves themselves were a product of the battle. Each one was coming from attacks on the creature.

"Go all out! You're on offense, and I'll take care of damage control. Got it?" Says the hooded man to the blond haired man.

"Yeah, yeah, just get ready for impact." Says the blonde hair one as he continues to strike the creature. As he does this, the hooded man seemingly disappears and reappears in rapid succession in various places, catching debris and creating what appear to be shields made of water to absorb some of the shockwaves. After multiple attacks connect, the hooded man appears at the end of the alleyway in front of the thief.

"You shouldn't be here right now, it's dangerous." He says as he picks her up and takes her back the direction where she came from.

"HIRO, GET BACK OVER HERE!" The blonde man shouts.

Hiro, the hooded man, drops her and disappears yet again, leaving behind a trail of fog in his wake. Mere moments after his disappearance, the girl attempts to stand back up, and a massive shockwave hits her and knocks her over. Being disoriented, she struggles to get back up.

"Ugh... Ears are ringing, whole body hurts, but still alive... I think." She says to herself, as she looks around to see what happened.

"There you are, you little brat!" Says the shopkeep from earlier, having found her.

"Not now. I gotta get away, but I can't move too well right now. Got... To... Get away..." The thief closes her eyes and she feels herself move as she passes out.

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"Name: Rose Trunick. Age: about 16 years old. Short brown hair, brown skin, 5 feet and 4 inches tall. Was arrested yesterday, September 26th, 1222, for several accounts of theft in the capital. Sentence: undetermined." Says a guard in heavy armor. "Be advised, if you teleport away from this place, you will be hunted down and executed for resisting arrest. You are to wait here until the Royal Family decides what to do with you." Says the guard as he turns and walks away. As the guard leaves, Rose looks at her surroundings and sees that she is in a prison. She also notices that it's completely empty, with nothing to accompany her other than the plain gray walls and a thin mattress.

"Hello? Anyone else in here?" She shouts in the empty prison, to no response.

"I'll take that as a no." She mumbles to herself.

"That guy said I'd be killed if teleported away. How would I even do that?" She questioned herself.

Thinking back on the series of events that led to her capture, she remembers the feeling of moving after closing her eyes but before she lost consciousness.

"So if I try the same thing from last time, I should be able to do it again. In theory, at least."

She closes her eyes and imagines moving to the other end of her cell, a few feet away. She tries and immediately feels a weakness rush throughout her body. As she opens her eyes, she realizes that she did indeed move, but it also seemed to suck almost all the strength out of her body. She started to get a bit lightheaded. She felt like she was tired, but more so mentally rather than physically, as if she had solved a difficult puzzle.